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Re: Show HN: We built a realtime design feedback tool using Node.js

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Post by oneye »

michaelbuddy wrote: post #9

Not stoked on pricing on any of these. not gonna pay that If one pays say $15 / month for flexible hosting products, these kinds of services are comparatively overpriced. Does the realtime feedback matter? My experience is its better to wait for your stakeholders to complete their round of feedback to weed out redundancy. Realtime is just a distraction There is a stand-out feature which is video, not all these servic…

If you think that $19 / month is over-priced, you are not in anybody's market.

If you think that the service is not as good as your current solutions, that is a different critique and discussion altogether.

I would actually advise to get rid of the $19/month option, because as all of the successful SaaS operators say it will result in the unhappiest customers and the lowest profit margin.

Re: Show HN: We built a realtime design feedback tool using Node.js

#32

Post by oneye »

Bump your prices up.

Imagine if some senior design guy in some digital agency making 8 figures in profit per year wants to use it. Do you think that he wouldn't get approval for, say, $500 / month if he thought it would help him work with the designers he manages or the stakeholders he reports to?

Capping out at $99 / month is leaving a ton of potential money on the table, IMO.

Re: Show HN: We built a realtime design feedback tool using Node.js

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Post by roh26it »

ebiester wrote: post #33

Cool, but the question for me is what advantage this has over screen sharing. Perhaps this is meeting a need that I don't know, though.

What after the screen sharing session? Framebench makes sure that all your comments, files etc stay here. Also allows for asynchronous feedback so you could check the comments left at your convenience. This is why we say Framebench has the good parts of email and screensharing. And we have a fully functional asset management with versioning system built in..

Btw, did I mention...much lower bandwidth costs. :)

Re: Show HN: We built a realtime design feedback tool using Node.js

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Post by roh26it »

stickydink wrote: post #29

"whats up, my god, this image has been, screwed up, faggots" Is all I see posted in the chat on your live demo[1]. You might want to have a little more control over this, seems like you've been infected with a few teenagers/morons already. [1] http://i.imgur.com/uunBhwX.png

Hey, sorry about this. we figure that while we could do something about an XSS attack, this is something we'd leave. We did clean a lot of comments and chat messages which were extreme. Framebench is meant to be private, so while this may happen in a demo, it certainly won't when within an organization. Thanks for pointing it out though! :)

Re: Show HN: We built a realtime design feedback tool using Node.js

#36

Post by roh26it »

oneye wrote: post #32

Bump your prices up. Imagine if some senior design guy in some digital agency making 8 figures in profit per year wants to use it. Do you think that he wouldn't get approval for, say, $500 / month if he thought it would help him work with the designers he manages or the stakeholders he reports to? Capping out at $99 / month is leaving a ton of potential money on the table, IMO.

Thanks a lot for this oneye! You're right we've had people sign up for our enterprise plans more than we'd expected. But we felt that this is the rift price point today because we want to make this available to every creator whos collaborating.

We go after the high net worth users with our enterprise plans that offer a higher degree of customization and integration.

Re: Show HN: We built a realtime design feedback tool using Node.js

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Post by roh26it »

oneye wrote: post #31
michaelbuddy wrote: post #9

Not stoked on pricing on any of these. not gonna pay that If one pays say $15 / month for flexible hosting products, these kinds of services are comparatively overpriced. Does the realtime feedback matter? My experience is its better to wait for your stakeholders to complete their round of feedback to weed out redundancy. Realtime is just a distraction There is a stand-out feature which is video, not all these servic…

If you think that $19 / month is over-priced, you are not in anybody's market. If you think that the service is not as good as your current solutions, that is a different critique and discussion altogether. I would actually advise to get rid of the $19/month option, because as all of the successful SaaS operators say it will result in the unhappiest customers and the lowest profit margin.

You do have a point there! We kept it to be a good starting point of low resistance.

Re: Show HN: We built a realtime design feedback tool using Node.js

#40

Post by michaelbuddy »

oneye wrote: post #32

Bump your prices up. Imagine if some senior design guy in some digital agency making 8 figures in profit per year wants to use it. Do you think that he wouldn't get approval for, say, $500 / month if he thought it would help him work with the designers he manages or the stakeholders he reports to? Capping out at $99 / month is leaving a ton of potential money on the table, IMO.

500 a month. Yeah right. you know how companies and freelancers make that kind of profit? They control their expenses.
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